Incentivizing sustainable waste management

Jeffrey Wagner

Ecological Economics, 2011, vol. 70, issue 4, 585-594

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the integration of economic and non-economic concepts of waste management and sustainability to achieve new insights to sustainable waste management. Since landfilling will continue to be a significant waste management method, our theory and practice of sustainable waste management should focus upon incentivizing the development of more sustainable landfills. The model sheds light on the design of efficient and fair landfill siting processes; how production inputs to bioreactor landfilling should be selected; and how management practices during the facility's operation phase can achieve greater economic, ecological and social sustainability.

Keywords: Bioreactor; Landfill; Siting; Municipal; solid; waste; Municipal; waste; management; Sustainable; waste; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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